All is in flux. Nothing remains still.

Ebbs & Flows is a new London-based record label designed to offer a sonic journey - one that moves freely, without the constraints of genre. 

We accept demos:
contact@ebbsflows.co.uk

Grant Aaron, founder of the long-running podcast, record label, and event series Mysteries of the Deep, has spent decades immersing himself in electronic music. His influences are far-reaching, and his identity as an artist resists categorization. 

As a DJ and live artist, Grant invokes and constructs narrative shapes from the nebulous ether of ambient and experimental music. He references kosmische tradition, synthesizer elegance from Detroit and the U.K., cold drone moods, and leftfield futurism from Asia and the Americas. He's performed at marquee venues throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, is a resident at the world-renowned Detroit party No Way Back, and has released mixes for Resident Advisor, Smoke Machine, 9128, Patterns of Perception, Sure Thing, Bright Patterns, Oslated, Beyond/Below, INVEINS, Delayed, and Silent Season. 

Website: mysteriesofthedeep.net/grant-aaron
Booking inquiries: info@mysteriesofthedeep.net

Upcoming gigs :

TBA

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Past gigs :

2021 

04/16 (五) 異界的純潔小島 @ Pawnshop
01/29 (五) 山本藥師大戰粉紅機器人 @ Pawnshop

2020

11/13 (五) 喝了一些酒犯了一些錯 兩個靈魂都很寂寞 @ Pawnshop
10/03 (六) 流當逃太郎 @ Downbar, Pawnshop
08/22 (六) 舞池裡的我是透明的 @ Downbar, Pawnshop
02/27 (四) Rifain at Pawnshop @ Downbar, Pawnshop
02/08 (六) Korridor at Pawnshop @ Downbar, Pawnshop
01/18 (六) Smoke Machine Night @ Downbar, Pawnshop

2019

12/27 (五) Pawnshop: Barker @ Downbar, Pawnshop
07/20 (六) Aura : 雰囲気 @ Rev
06/29 (六) Soma Taipei x 6AM present : IORI @ Rev
03/22 (五) Soma Taipei 5th Anniversary ＠ Taboo

2018

08/25 (六) Paradise Vol.6 Detox排毒 @ 微遠虎山	
06/09 (六) Final Outliers: Prosumer @ Korner
04/11 (三) Vinyl Only @ Outer, Korner
01/20 (六) Adult Game Club @ Outer, Korner

2017

12/08 (五) Spectrum Formosus After Party @ Outer, Korner
11/03 (五) Tox Lab @ Korner
10/13 (五) Korner 5 YEAR Anniversary @ Outer, Korner
09/30 (六) Outlier: Marco Shuttle @ Korner
08/22 (二) Oddsound Festival 2017 @ Outer, Korner
08/19 (六) Adult Game Club @ Outer, Korner
07/15 (日) 愁城鬧事 @ 環音專業燈光音響演出工程
07/07 (五) Lost and Found @ Outer, Korner
07/01 (六) Giant Cell Tumor 巨噬細胞瘤 @ Revolver
06/23 (五) Tox Lab @ Outer, Korner
06/09 (五) Adult Game Club @ Outer, Korner
05/28 (日) Tox Lab @ Outer, Korner
04/29 (六) Organik Festival @ Huting, Hualien
03/24 (五) Babylon Calling @ PIPE
03/17 (五) Outliers: Mike Servito @ Outer, Korner
03/04 (六) Paradise Vol.2 歡愉旅程 @ 濕地
02/24 (五) Spank @ Outer, Korner


2016

12/30 (五) Diskonnected All Night Long @ Outer, Korner
11/05 (六) Korner 4th Anniversary @ Korner
10/19 (三) Baisa @ Outer, Korner
10/08 (六) Tox Lab @ Korner
08/24 (三) Baisa @ Outer, Korner
08/06 (六) Toska All Night Long @ Outer, Korner
07/27  (三) Baisa @ Outer, Korner
05/06 (五) ORGANIK 2016 After Party @ Outer, Korner
02/12 (五) SOMA/DANKE @ Korner
01/08 (五) Innervve @ Outer, Korner


2015

12/25 (五) Adult Game Club @ Korner
10/31 (六) Smoke Machine Night @ Korner
08/14 (五) Tox Lab @ Korner
06/18 (四) Smoke Machine Night @ Korner
04/04 (六) Spank @ Outer, Korner

As a DJ, Sound Artist, and Photographer, Rami's practice reflects a life lived at the crossroads of cultures and places. Subtly confronting and surprising, his works aim to empower imagination as they retell stories through music. They are an invitation to explore themes of memory, time, migration and forced existential exile. 

His first live performance was in Madame Claude’s infamous EXPERIMONTAG nights, one of the strongholds of Berlin’s experimental music scene. From there he appeared at Tresor’s New Faces, Silent Green, OHM, and ELSE and established a presence in Berlin's night culture. Rami has also made a name as radio host through monthly residencies on Radio Alhara, Noods Radio, and Cashmere Radio. 

Insijam, his show on Cashmere Radio focuses on the essence of chances and encounters. In Arabic, Insijam means harmony, and in this show different sounds peacefully coexist and enhance each other. Musique Concrète naturally merges with traditional Lebanese music, spoken words, and improv jazz. In these performances, Rami forms an auditory journey that deeply resonates with feelings of displacement and the eternal quest for belonging. To deliberately bring about this sentiment, Rami is versatile in using media - tapes, recordings and vinyl collected in the fragmented places that influenced him, are puzzled and layered together. They build fluid structures that bring people together and make them belong- through the experience of listening. 

For “love is on my side” on Noods Radio, Rami showcases Cold Wave, Post Punk and Synth tunes with a focus to offer a space for reflection. 

"Layali Insijam" on Radio Alhara, is a continuation of the INSIJAM project by documenting Folk music from Lebanon by highlighting musical plays and instrumental pieces. Radio is an important vessel of self-expression for Rami, and in his words, working with Radio made him a better listener and DJ.  

Moreover, Rami’s sound projects extend to sound art by amplifying chairs and manipulating samples of traditional Lebanese instruments. The Oud, Nay, Qanun, and Tabla intertwine with electro-acoustic elements, field recordings from Beirut and Berlin, and spoken words to evoke a sense of contemplation. 

But his examination of places and spaces and their significance for one’s identity and sense of belonging doesn’t stop here. As a photographer Rami’s current focus is on taking urban pictures. He seeks to find a deeper understanding of boundaries. They either separate or unify public and/or private realms, giving birth to spaces, which Rami coins as a “diasporic field”. Within these newly human-defined spaces, the pictures serve as a mirror. They capture and reveal these for Rami so important themes of remembrance and displacement.

Rami’s pursuit of harmonizing a fusion of influences - may it be via sound or visual art - acts as a reminder to embrace the beauty of chance encounters and form deep contemplations about belonging and the fluidity of cultural identity.

Written by Theresa Baumel -

Followers of Grant Aaron